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Percy France: Live from the West End
by Daniel Gould
If you know Percy France, most likely you are a fan of “greasy" organ jazz, particularly on Blue Note Records during their classic era. He was an integral part of Jimmy Smith's Home Cookin' (1959) and Freddie Roach's Down to Earth (1962). Or perhaps you came to jazz through r&b acts like the Bill Doggett combo. The ...
New England Jazz Collaborative: Tributaries
by Jack Bowers
Tributaries is the debut recording by the seventeen-member New England Jazz Collaborative whose origin and purpose are summed up as follows: “an artist-led non-profit collective dedicated to commissioning, presenting and documenting new music and expanding the audience for what remains a thrilling and vital musical form." The album consists of half a dozen fresh ...
Mike DiRubbo: Way Out Northwest
by Pierre Giroux
Some recordings try to overwhelm the listener with grand statements. With Way Out Northwest, alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo is not trying to reinvent modern jazz but to remind us how rewarding it can be when four musicians know one another, allowing the music to develop through relationships built over time. Pianist Tilden Webb, bassist Jodi Proznick ...
Clara Wedel Quartet at Jazzclub Hürth
by Matty Bannond
Clara Wedel, Simon Pesch, Gabriel Spindler, Jiaxiang Jack Wang Jazzclub Hürth Hürth, Germany August 14, 2026 Vegetation had yellowed in the farmland and meadows huddled around Hürth, with greenery blanched to a sandy color by successive summer heatwaves. Shady forests were off-limits after local politicians urged the public to cut the ...
New York's Hottest New Club Has Arrived
by Mark Robbins
Martin Porter's life has revolved around jazz from an early age. Growing up playing jazz piano and listening to the greats, he eventually found himself living out a dream--working at the Jazz Standard, one of the city's premier jazz clubs. The closing of the Standard left a void in New York's jazz community--one that Martin Porter was ...
Rodrigo Amado: Wailers
by Mark Corroto
A decade ago, it would have been easy to assume that saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's This Is Our Language (Not Two, 2015) was a singular encounter rather than the beginning of an enduring ensemble. Amado had previously collaborated with bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love on Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), while drummer Chris Corsano would join ...
Clovis Nicolas: Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues
by Angelo Leonardi
Il contrabbassista Clovis Nicolas presenta dodici differenti interpretazioni del blues, interpretando in trio brani personali e temi appartenenti ad epoche e autori diversi: dai tradizionali “Abide with Me" e “Old Stack O'Lee Blues" a Duke Ellington, Wes Montgomery, Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley e altri. Con lui sono Carl Allen alla batteria e ...
Dorota Piotrowska: Jazz With International Voices
by R.J. DeLuke
As a child in Poland, Dorota Piotrowska was musical. She played piano and listened to records of music from America that her father was fond of, like The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Queen. At age seven her piano studies centered on classical music, as is the case with most kids taking up the instrument. ...
Bill Frisell and Ambrose Akinmusire at NoMad Jazz Festival
by Paul Reynolds
Bill Frisell and Ambrose Akinmusire Baruch College NoMad Jazz Festival New York NY August 3, 2026 It's not uncommon to describe jazz duets as musical conversations. But the term, suggesting some silences and even disagreements, isn't quite right for an encounter as uninterrupted and musically telepathic as that of Bill ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Play Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige
by Paul Reynolds
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center Ellington's Greatest Masterpiece: Black, Brown, and Beige New York, NY July 23, 2026 Usually dark for the summer, Jazz at Lincoln Center, unusually, presented a concert event this month. Billed as the first performances of the 2026-2027 season for ...
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